No More, No Less

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 15th, 2008

It has been there with us for more then 10 years now. It is beautiful. It is costly. It is rich in look. It adds to the colour of our whole household. But still we never use it. The last time I remember using it was way back in 2006 when we had the opportunity [...]

Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 13th, 2008

This post has been blogged by Bineeta Fialok with inputs by Siva Aditya
A spark in your eyes, the skipping of a heartbeat, butterflies in the stomach, a tingling in your toes. Oh my there you are! You have caught the disease they call ‘love’. Now, doesn’t that sound like the typical Mills and Boons definition [...]

Twelve

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 12th, 2008

There was a time when horror movies really frightened the day lights out of me. There was a feeling in me that I would be hounded by devils and evil spirits if I watched a horror movie or worse the ghosts would roam around during nights and might come to our house. Whenever the name [...]

Fragments of a Woman’s Mind

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on March 1st, 2008

By Bineeta Fialok
There’s a sea of torture I let myself wade through, every time I love you. Each breath drawn sends sharp needles down my throat right into my heart. The bleeding doesn’t begin and it doesn’t stop. Blood within blood, invisible, unnoticeable, its thirst insatiable. I draw the golden-black sword a hundred times a [...]

Is It “Fair” Enough?

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on February 6th, 2008

A usual  advertisement in the matrimony classifieds goes like this:
“A reputed business family seeks alliance for their handsome, tall, smart, highly qualified son earning a 6 figure salary with a beautiful, FAIR, tall, slim, educated, talented, cultured girl form a reputed business /professional family with traditional values.”
Whew!
I could never understand the thinking of the people [...]

Bone Idle!!

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on January 29th, 2008

A few days back I stumbled upon an article stating that the whole week would be celebrated as “Laziness Week” or something like that. What caught my eye was the way it was presented to the readers. It was written in such a way that as though they were indicating that now laziness could be [...]

A Phenomenon Called Silence

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on November 12th, 2007

Silence is what I always have preferred over its more equally famous opponent, chattering. But during the last month, has been my site has been very silent as I was busy with my exams and this time, for the first time in my life I hated something to be silent, as I do not like [...]

Captions And Slogans

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on September 23rd, 2007

“Where ever you go, our network follows“, goes the caption of the telecom company Hutch. It was made symbolic with a dog following a boy wherever he goes. Hutch was more famous after that particular advertisement with the general public. The concept of a company advertising themselves to the public is very synonymous with very [...]

Name Your Bike Dude!

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on August 23rd, 2007

A month back I got myself a new bike. It is a nice black and blue mix colored one. After paying the amount to the showroom guy, I was almost ready to leave to my house with my new bike when the mechanic over there asked me whether I would prefer sticking anything on my [...]

Mahatma ‘Smoking’ Gandhi

Posted by Siva Aditya Penumarthi on August 20th, 2007

Before you guys fume at me let me come to the point straight away. The guy in the photo is not the real Mahatma but a beggar in that attire smoking his cigarette very liesurely. I did not photoshop any picture of Gandhi to get this. This picture was taken by one of my friends [...]